I have a large collection of weapons and came up with a pair to become my starting points and wanted advice / warnings.

I picked an inexpensive Remington 770 in 300 WinMag as the starting point for deer. I bought it from a friend who thought it was a decent starting point for a magnum round target weapon. The action feels smooth, which is something I worried about since it is much less expensive than my pair of 700 PSS's and google brought back a lot of hits of people complaining about the bolt and action. Trigger pull does not seem to have any "hitches" to it, so I don't plan to replace the trigger group. For a scope, I found an extra Leupold Mark 4 LR/T 3.5-10 M3 and I put that on top. I have an email off to Leupold Customer Service to ask if they have turrets in 180 grain 300 WinMag; as I just moved to NY and appear to have lost my extra turrets. Right now it is of course set as 168 grain 7.62 NATO. Does anyone else make turrets for that scope? I have used Kenton's Tuned Trajectory Compensators in the past. I also think I should try to find a gunsmith to add a JP Enterprises Muzzle Brake or some other muzzle brake.

A second weapon choice if the 770 is a bad choice is a beautiful Remington 700 Classic I own in 338 WinMag. It was already magnaported and has a Nikon hunting scope on it. I was just worried that 338 WinMag would do too much damage to the meat and was really more for Elk hunting in the Rockies.